Dompter le modernisme – l’expressivité selon les modernes
Taming Modernism: On the Modern Coordinates of Expressivity

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to demonstrate the fact that during the decade preceding the widespread adoption of socialist realism (1948), a new poetic paradigm gained prominence in the Romanian literary arena. Thus, there occurred a split from a broadly conceived modernist radicalism including not only purism and hermeticism, but also the poetics of the avant-garde, a split that equalled a return to expressivity under modern coordinates. The volumes of poetry and the programmatic articles published at that time, as well as some remarks made by well-known critics, bear testimony to this. Nevertheless, literary histories have remained opaque, failing to depict the above-mentioned paradigm as a worthy presence on the literary landscape of the period.

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